Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:53:06 -0600 From: "Thierry Black" <thierryblack@hotmail.com> To: philip@adhesivemedia.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .vacation: Permission denied Message-ID: <F120cPWLdUpkY7R1Dvo0000f63e@hotmail.com>
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>I could be wrong, but there might be two issues... > >- you might have a circular alias going on there... No. Not happening here. >-Also, by putting it in /etc/mail/aliases, it might be running as root, >not as the user thierry which could be the problem. That could definitely be a problem. Is there a workaround? >What happens if you >put the vacation stuff into your .forward file? ~/.forward is ignored because the server uses cyrus for local delivery. Thats why I used aliases. am I hooped? Does anyone know if cyrus has any kind of built in autoresponder? thierry >good luck! > >On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Thierry Black wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Im trying to use the vacation program to set up an autoresponder. First >I > > did "vacation -i", and it created ~/.vacation.db (64KB). The home >directory > > is 0755. I created the following .vacation.msg, 0644: > > > > From: thierry@domain.com > > Subject: Out of the office > > > > Out of the office. > > > > Then in /etc/mail/aliases I put > > > > thierry: "|/usr/bin/vacation thierry", thierry > > > > I still get messages delivered to me, but the vacation program does not >want > > to work: > > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > "|/usr/bin/vacation thierry" > > (reason: data format error) > > (expanded from: <thierry@domain.com>) > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > vacation: .vacation: Permission denied > > 501 5.6.0 Data format error > > > > Whats with ".vacation: permission denied"? Is .vacation supposed to >exist? > > I could not find any reference to this. > > > > My maillog shows basically the same thing as above. > > > > Im using sendmail plus cyrus for lacal delivery. > > > > thierry > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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